Young Tiger

Kate is now taking Tae Kwon Do. She is in the Young Tiger class. She LOVES it! She is a little in disbelief (and I bet secretly excited) that she has permission to punch in class. When the instructor tells her to do a double-punch, she always looks over at me like "Is this really okay?". Very cute. She still has her white belt, but she already has a red skill tip on it for learning her snap kicks and punches. She is the youngest and smallest in her class, so we had to do a number on hemming the uniform to get it to fit her. It is still giant on her, but it is the smallest they had. I will be posting some photos soon.

Racoon

Okay, here is the scoop on the racoon. I will for sure post a photo once it is trapped. Last week, I was taking our brilliant dog Hero out for his dusk-time potty break. There was a large "kitty" on the end table beside the glider. So, being the animal-lover that I am, I start saying "here kitty kitty" and walking towards it. I am nearly at it when it lifts its head. NO KITTY!!!! It is a racoon! Yikes! Then, I do what I always do when I see a wild critter (or a spider, turtle, anything)... I scream for Melanie. She always comes to my rescue. She chased it away, thank goodness.

BUT, we have since learned that it is nesting under our porch. I figured our zillions of tax dollars would cover someone coming to help with this, but no, you have to hire a private Wildlife Control Company. So, Trapper John shows up last night to set up the trap. Kate is on high alert and wants to check the trap about every 15 seconds. She is very worried about this.

Back to the brilliant dog... He has already set the trap once. The food in the trap looks like chocolate covered sticks (I am tempted to set it off and try one myself). Whatever it is, it is also appealing to Hero.

Stay tuned for an update. We hope there will be a trapping soon.